"Is somethin’ wrong, kiddo?" Joel asked, as he adjusted the blanket on their laps and looked at his surrogate daughter.

It was their first movie night they'd done in years...After those years of being apart, after Ellie found out what happened at the hospital years before, she was finally trying to forgive him.

Trying.

"Ya...ya ain’t likin’ the movie?" Joel asked, with some concern and nervousness behind his neutral tone.

This was the closest they had been in the last 2 years and he didn't want to mess it up. He wanted to have that family bond with her again before she found out about everything. How he saved her in that hospital.

He felt so alone these last few years.